Representing Myanmar in Unicode - Evertype

Mon
Language Tag
mnw-Mymr
Alphabet
Consonants
က ခ ဂ ဃ ၚ စ ဆ ဇ ၛ ဉ ည ဋ ဌ ဍ ဎ ဏ
1000 1001 1002 1003 105A 1005 1006 1007 105B 1009 100A 100B 100C 100D 100E 100F
တ ထ ဒ ဓ န ပ ဖ ဗ ဘ မ ယ ရ လ ဝ သ ဟ
1010 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 101A 101B 101C 101D 101E 101F
ဠ အ ၜ ၝ
1020 1021 105C 105D
The nga letter in Mon is encoded U+105A ၚ and not U+1004 င as in Burmese. Independently, these characters
look very different. But in the context of something occuring below the character, the Mon nga (U+105A)
loses its tail. Thus a Mon kinzi is encoded using U+105A U+103A U+1039. In addition, the medial form of
Mon nga is simply the tail: ါ္ (U+1039 U+105A).
Mon has a character 'great nya' which is encoded ည U+100A U+1039 U+100A. But this is stylistic and the
same sequence may also be rendered ည္ U+100A U+1039 U+100A.
Independent Vowels
အ အာ ဣ ဣဦ ဥ ဥု ဨ ြသ ဪ
1021 1021 102C 1023 1023 102E 1025 1025 102F 1028 1029 102A
Dependent Vowels
ါာ ါိ ါဦ ါု ါူ နါ နါာ ါိ ု ါံ
102C 102D 102E 102F 1030 1031 1031 102C 102D 102F 1036
Mon has a sequence U+102C U+1036 ါာံ and correspondingly U+102B U+1036, but here the dot is rendered
over the previous consonant: ါံ ါ and for consistency this is encoded with the dot after the vowel.
ကံ ာ်
ကာံ
ဂံ ါ
U+1000 U+1036 U+102C U+103A
U+1000 U+102C U+1036
U+1002 U+102B U+1036
The ordering of U+1036 U+102C U+103A follows Burmese encoding order and keeps consistency across the
script.
Contractions
Mon has the concept of final character contractions. One of these is where ဟ် becomes ါှ ် on the final
character of the syllable. Thus one can have ါာှ ်. The natural order for these would be U+102C U+103E
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